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XML Overview

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) functions described in the following sections allow you to externalize relational data as XML data. The CA Datacom/DB implementation of XML includes support for the following XML functions:

The XMLELEMENT, XMLATTRIBUTES, XMLFOREST, and XMLCONCAT functions operate on relational or XML data to produce XML output. The XMLSERIALIZE function is an ANSI-compliant method for returning XML values into user applications that expect string result types such as VARCHAR. An XML value is defined as a well-formed XML document or a document fragment consisting of well-formed XML content.